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such as could only be committed by inhuman and 

 cowardly scoundrels. 



The other two actors in this tragedy were both 

 Indians, and were both men of much higher stamp. 

 One was Cornstalk, the Shawnee chief; a far-sight- 

 ed seer, gloomily conscious of the impending ruin of 

 his race, a great orator, a mighty warrior, a man 

 who knew the value of his word and prized his 

 honor, and who fronted death with quiet, dis- 

 dainful heroism; and yet a fierce, cruel, and treach- 

 erous savage to those with whom he was at enmity, 

 a killer of women and children, whom we first hear 

 of, in Pontiac's War, as joining in the massacre of 

 unarmed and peaceful settlers who had done him 

 no wrong, and who thought that he was friendly. 19 

 The other was Logan, an Iroquois warrior, who lived 

 at that time away from the bulk of his people, but 

 who was a man of note in the loose phraseology 

 of the border, a chief or headman among the out- 

 lying parties of Senecas and Mingos, and the frag- 

 ments of broken tribes that dwelt along the upper 

 Ohio. He was a man of splendid appearance; over 

 six feet high, straight as a pear-shaft, witli a coun- 

 tenance as open as it was brave and manly, 20 until 

 the wrongs he endured stamped on it an expression 

 of gloomy ferocity. He had always been the friend 

 of the white man, and had been noted particularly 

 for his kindness and gentleness to children. Up to 



19 At Greenbriar. See " Narrative of Captain John Stew- 

 art," an actor in the war. "Magazine of American History," 

 Vol. I, p. 671. 



20 Loudon's "Indian Narratives," II, p. 223. 



